Ukraine Between Democracy and Corruption

-        Ukraine.... which the West claims is democratic...! is among the countries in which individuals, politicians, smugglers and security authority officials operate, a group that, alongside Ukraine, includes Egypt, Venezuela, and Thailand...., who smuggle embezzled money from their countries to a Swiss bank ... Credit Suisse, where a report revealed the existence of more than 30,000 secret accounts in the giant bank Credit Suisse. These accounts belong, as the report indicated, to political figures, security officials, drug smugglers, money-laundering groups and mafia groups, etc., and the information disclosed by an article in the British newspaper The Guardian on 20 February 2022, in addition to the American newspaper The New York Times, attributed these leaked disclosures to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. It turned out that more than half of Credit Suisse's assets of 6.3 trillion pounds sterling belong to foreign clients (customers). Noting that the value of the balances of these secret accounts – 30,000 accounts – was estimated at more than 80 billion pounds sterling..!

-        The Guardian report cited above, written by a group of Guardian journalists led by David Pegg and four of his colleagues, stated that the nationalities of these accounts are mostly from more than 120 foreign entities and countries, predominantly classified as developing countries.!! There was mention of many Arab countries, whether reigning or former political rulers, or their families or friends.. and other individuals among officials, from the center of security and torture in some of these Arab countries..in addition to businessmen..senior ones..

-        The report stated that some groups and individuals, whether current politicians or security officials, or individuals in Ukraine, were revealed to own more than 1,000 secret accounts in this Swiss bank..while from Egypt and Venezuela, there were more than 2,000 accounts for each country,..

-        The report mentioned that the Vatican had some of its officials who maintained a secret account with a balance of 350 million pounds sterling..it stated that one of the cardinals of the Holy See had a connection to this account which was described as a secret account for fraudulent investment.

-        It is worth noting that Ukraine is a friend of the West..and as the aforementioned report indicated, one of Ukraine’s prime ministers, “Pavlo Lazarenko”. Pavlo Lazarenko..who held the premiership in Ukraine for one year.....from 1997–1998..and was forced to resign thereafter. He was accused of corruption and bribery and of exploiting businessmen in Ukraine by imposing kickbacks and threats to deliver 50% of their profits to him, with the value of the looted funds exceeding $200 million..as the report stated....and it was noted that he had two secret accounts (of Pavlo) in the aforementioned Swiss bank, one of them with a balance of 3.6 million pounds sterling, although some sources.. pointed to accusations of his money-laundering operations in Switzerland in 2000..and he was also sentenced to 9 years in prison in the United States of America in 2006...on charges of receiving bribes from Ukrainian businessmen at home and abroad, amounting according to the report to $17 million.

-        The report stated that Pavlo’s two secret accounts had their balances frozen based on court prosecutions, Pavlo on charges of corruption, money laundering and theft..!

-        It is worth noting that the Swiss bank Credit Suisse employs about 50,000 employees..noting that there are more than 3,500 directors in the Swiss bank who were entrusted with serving foreign customers and opening secret accounts for this group of directors...!

Of course...most Arab countries, as the report indicates..are sources of smuggling their peoples’ wealth..to the Swiss bank – according to the report – or to other banks, through the looting by some of their politicians and security officials...of the peoples’ money.. who are subjected to torture or extortion..in one way or another..and what is hidden is greater.......oppressed and subdued peoples..while their rulers boast of transparency and democracy...and receive support, blessing and protection from Western countries...!